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Viewers dive into Holey Moley

Ratings: Seven wins first round as Holey Moley defeats MAFS and Amazing Race.

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Seven’s brash news mini-golf extravaganza Holey Moley has launched to 983,000 metro viewers on Monday, in a heated TV war.

It beat out Nine’s Married at First Sight: Grand Reunion on 781,000 and the return of The Amazing Race Australia on 501,000.

10’s heavily promoted reality race was fourth in its slot behind ABC’s 7:30 (577,000) and Four Corners (576,000).

Seven’s new mini-golf show, produced by Eureka, also topped the demos and helped Seven to a 29.7% win. Nine followed at 28.5% then 10 17.9%, ABC 16.7% and SBS 7.2%.

Seven News topped the night at 1.04m.

2021 survey officially begins this Sunday.

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 1 February 2021

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  2. I watched Holey Moley live and then The Amazing Race from a DVR recording. As with several other posters I found both shows to be insanely padded out and needing a desperate edit to under the one hour mark.
    Holey Moley had at most 20 minutes of content and was harmed by the endless player biographies, Greg Norman’s ‘humourous’ interludes in front of a green screen and the commentary which really harmed rather than heightened the show.
    The Amazing Race took forever to get going and I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. It seemed to have even less viable content than the golfing show, maybe 15 minutes at most.
    For 90 minute programs there was just too little to make them worth pursuing again.
    I didn’t go near the Married at First Sight option.

  3. As a rule we don’t watch much reality tv but had a look at HM last night. The juvenile humour would have gone down well with the kids. Like the initial Ninja set up we wondered if anyone could complete the obstacles.

  6. Its funny how many said they cant wait for TAR to start. The poll on here reflected it as well. TAR even answered the critics of population diversity but yet many abandoned the show. We are a strange lot.

      2. I’ll second that. Have always thought that TV Tonight readers as a group are not representative of the broader population. They are a select group, largely pro 10, to a lesser pro extent 7 and generally anti 9. Wow, how will this go down!

  7. Holey Moley being a new show was always going to do better than the other two due to the curiosity factor. Amazing Race at 500,000 is not a flop, that is not too bad with full competition. You can’t compare to I’m a Celeb which was doing more but with very little competition.

  8. ABC somehow lost 200,000 viewers at 8pm, and then magically regained them again at 830pm.

    What was the problem of the interview between Stan Grant and Carlotta?
    I thought it was well done.

    Perhaps if they had teed off, raced each other around the room, or pretended they were married they might have rated better.

    1. The problem is Stan Grant. I used to like this show but Stan seems to want to dominate the interview with long winded questions cum explanations. Take the Larry King edit of short sharp questions.

  10. I agree with others that TARA could be more tightly edited to an one hour show. However all commercial FTA networks now have their striped show running for 90 minutes these days. Will be interesting to see if HM figures hold up this week and once MAFS season 8 is back in a fortnight.

  11. Cannot believe that the real star of last night’s viewing has not been mentioned yet.

    If her manager is even half-decent, Montana Strauss should be a household name in the coming months.

  12. Holey Moley wasn’t too bad, however 90mins is too long. Maybe 75mins or less would be better.

    I don’t think it will retain the same number of today. If it was shorter in time or 2 episodes a week then people might come back but I think it will just fizzle out

  13. Watched TAR and it was good. Perhaps not riveting. Then watched Holey Moley. I was hooked after the intro. Felt really fresh and great production values (love the retro suits and 80’s? 7 logo). However, after about 15 min, I was over it. Around the time they made about 10 Uranus jokes. Maybe I should try MAFS lol.

  14. Holey Moley… recording it then playing just the action is best. But it is a great show.

    Putt Putt golf with wipeout elements, and played for fun. Dicko was a hoot. I’m sold.

  15. Holey Moley was hilarious last night. Rob Riggle truly is a comedic genius.
    For those negative nellys out there – lighten up, laugh a little and try not to be so down on everything!

  16. Like most other Australian reality TV shows, I really feel The Amazing Race could have benefitted with a hard edit chopping out about 20 mins of it and keeping the episode tight.

    1. Absolutely……..the US version of the Amazing Race is an hour and they edit it well. Last night was dragged out too much to the point I was getting bored. There wasn’t that much ‘excitement’ to justify 90 mins. In saying that, Holey Moley was the same. There are 20-30 minutes of fill / fluff in these shows that is not needed.

  17. I stuck with the launch episode of TARAus and I’ll say it felt underwhelming … and I don’t say that from the perspective of “oh, it’s only around Australia, so it sucks because it’s not around the world” (The Canadian Amazing Race sticks to Canada, and they make a pretty great show).

    I’ll probably stick with it (being a TAR fanatic), but I could see why a casual audience just looking for something to watch on a Monday was turned off.

    1. Something felt off about 10’s first series of Amazing Race Australia. I didn’t end up finishing the series and I’ve watched every episode of the US and Australian series up to that point.

  19. That’s bad for Amazing Race, especially since the premiere is usually a peak episode. Lower than anything it got last season (511,000 was the worst) and lower than The Mole got when it was unceremoniously dumped on Seven (555,000).

    1. I do think that comparing same day ratings that would warrant cancellation now vs 7 years ago is a little silly (back then 1 million was expected for a flagship reality show – while now, a show can survive on 500-600k provided that catch-up & delayed viewing is ok).

  20. Will they stick with it though – I think Australia’s obsession with stripping everything in extended slots will really harm a show which can work perfectly well in a weekly hour long slot.

  21. Wow! I expected an all-Australian Amazing Race to smash the ratings out of the park! It only got half at what I was expecting. I didn’t really enjoyed the episode. Holey Moley was a pretty dumb show to watch, but at least I got a very good laugh out of it and MAFS Reunion… well, let’s just say that they are crazy!

    1. The Amazing Race has never delivered big numbers, even in any of the Australian incarnations. It’s always puzzled me why it doesn’t do better. It’s a great format but has never fired. 7.30 Monday was always a big ask (it’s been there before and failed).

      1. The first season of TAR Australia back when it was on Seven consistently pulled over a million every week (its premiere pulled 440k viewers in Melbourne alone). And the US version was huge here for quite a while.

        1. But here’s the thing – 7’s TARAus was great (as a TAR fanatic, the first two seasons are among my favourite TAR seasons ever, and the 3rd one (Aus vs NZ) was still pretty good)… 10’s TARAus is just kinda alright.

  24. I streamed the tennis on 9Now app on my computer. After having dinner I Watched the holey moley on 7 and it was fun to watch. Whilst watching holey moley, they had a 7 Olympics watermark being plastered on the screen instead of seven.com.au.

  25. Lasted 5 minutes on the Golf, possibly the worst show I’ve ever seen.
    Switched over to the Amazing Race and that was even worse, are Australians really that bad at making decent television. it certainly looks that way.
    Didn’t bother with the pathetic MAFS.
    Enjoyed the night on Netflix.

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